Photovoltaics

The photovoltaics market has expanded more than ten-fold over the last decade. The technology offers millions of people around the world in remote sites the chance of electricity for lighting, refrigeration and many other important uses. It promises to have a wide range of applications for integration into buildings all over the world and for many other gadgets where connection to a grid would be expensive or unpractical. This book offers a completely up-to-date assessment of the current state of this burgeoning market, a uniquely well-informed prediction of its future development and detailed profiles of all the companies, world-wide, who are manufacturing photovoltaic cells or modules.